Workshop (Understanding the Changing Media Landscape) —Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy is an internationally known visual journalist with 35 years
of print and online journalism experience, including positions as Managing
Editor for Multimedia at washingtonpost.com and Director of Photography
at the National Geographic Society. He has created, directed, and edited visual
journalism projects that have earned Pulitzer Prizes, as well as EMMY,
Peabody, and Edward R. Murrow awards.

As the Managing Editor for Multimedia at washingtonpost.com, Kennedy
conceptualized and developed its multimedia section, and created the first
documentary video team to produce stories for a newspaper-based web site.

Kennedy has been a featured speaker at some of the most prestigious journalism
conferences and media workshops around the world, while also consulting to
various academic institutions and international media companies on topics
ranging from media management to multimedia storytelling and innovating
within a corporate environment.

Currently, he is on the faculty of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications at Syracuse University as the endowed Alexia Foundation
chair in the multimedia, photography, and design department.

Kennedy serves on the Board of Advisors for The Knight Center for International
Journalism within the School of Communication at the University of Miami, as
well as on the Board of Directors for the Eddie Adams Photo Workshop.